Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Conscience, forsook of Reason's Use, / Knows neither how to judge, nor choose: / For Reason and Self-Interest / Must always keep a closs Contest, / And Conscience still from Wall to Wall / Is bandy'd like a Tennis-Ball"Work: The Patriots, A Satyr, Written on the 12th of October 1734http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11929
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11929Conscience may grovel like a conquer'd Foe " While Int'rest with a threatning Frown, / Brow-beats her still, and knocks her down"Work: The Patriots, A Satyr, Written on the 12th of October 1734http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11928
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11928"Self-Int'rest is the mighty Prince, / Who governs all without Controul, / And dastards even the very Soul"Work: The Patriots, A Satyr, Written on the 12th of October 1734http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11927
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11927"With all thy <i>Whigish-bombast</i>, stuff't with <i>Lies</i>, / Thy <i>Shams</i>, thy <i>Gasconades</i> and <i>Forgeries</i>; / Which to promote, thou hast thy <i>Genius</i> bent, / Set on by <i>Hell</i>, of which thy <i>Brain</i>'s the <i>Mint</i>"Work: The Rattle-Snake, Or, a bastonado for a whigghttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/10769
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